dear southern california weather,

really?
a blazing 90 degrees?
how did that seem like a good idea
for mid-october?

how about some more of that
gray
rainy
chilly
goodness you graced us with on tuesday?

how about some
scarf-wearing,
bundled-up,
boots-n-all,
hat & mittens
kind of weather?

we're ready!
ready, i tell you!

look, nobody likes to sip hot spiced cider
whilst sitting under the ceiling fan.

nobody wants to cuddle up with their honeybunchesofoats
(best nickname ever, no?)
only to have to move in three seconds
because they're sweating!

get cold, dammit!
and stay cold!

(and by cold i mean, like, 68 degrees)
(nothing too drastic)

sincerely, emily b.

hello november!

last night was our first halloween in our new home. we had a good number of kids...not the tons i was expecting (as is evidenced by our still heaping bowl of candy) but a very nice bunch. only a couple of kids too old to be trick-or-treating. but even they said thank you. so all in all, it was a great success!

and here it is november already. only two months before the year changes again and i still don't quite know where this year has gone to...it was almost 9 months ago we stumbled on this house, out of pure chance (or fate) and 8 months ago we had the keys in our hands. magical and scary and perfect...
i hope my in-lustness with our house never goes away. the very first time we walked in the door i looked at ben and said, "this is the house." and so it is :)

(and in a lot of ways that was how it was when ben and i first met. which is another post entirely. and i can see i have veered off on a dangerous tangent the likes this world has yet to have seen! back to revelling in fall...)

fall, which it is finally starting to feel like here in so cal, has been much anticipated. it is hard to be cozy and cuddly when it's 90 outside. hard to order hot chocolate. hard to wear my new peacoat. a couple of weeks ago i wore a scarf, in the sweltering weather, just in case it decided to be fall-like at any given moment. so finally finally finally, there are clouds and gentle breezes and a certain crispness. it even rained the other night!! which is just plain crazy. and we are lucky enough to have lots of leaf-dropping trees in our yard so there is much color-changing going on and all kinds of lovely crunchy noises underfoot.

i am loving every minute of it. happy november, everybody! (which i think is just benny..my most faithful reader thus far) :)

p.s. just poured buckets of rain down from the sky. this. very. minute. LOVE IT!!